flying jib

1. 1.

   the outermost of two or more jibs

   Broaderjib

Questions about flying jib

What does flying jib mean?

flying jib means "the outermost of two or more jibs".

Is flying jib a common word?

flying jib is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.